Radio - Sunday, December 5th, 2021

On tonight's EXD, we have more listener appreciation with Ben Needham who grew up listening to EXD. There is a ton of new material on tonight’s show (Midnight Resurector, Crunk, Autoroll).  We play a tribute  for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Neo Boys, Accidente, Ramonas).  We’ve got an oldies set (Fiendens Musik, Female Hands, and the Spy’s). A set of bands from BC (Starvation, Scheme, Wirehead). And in our demo feature a band that would go on to become Career Suicide (Fuck Jonah). Download the show here.

BRUXISM - From Gloomy Dark Night Into Total Disturbing Paranoia / From The Hospital Birth Bed To The Coffin And Grave (Blown Out Media) 

Stretch Fundraising campaign

The GERMS were one of the influences on the School Jerks. 

ZERO BOYS - What We Do Is Secret (Bitzcore) 

BRUTAL KNIGHTS - Nervous Breakdown (Perpetrator) 

Ben Needham from School Jerks 

RIOT 99 - Last Year’s Youth (CIUT) 

New Japanese hardcore

MIDNIGHT RESURRECTOR - Blow For A Blow (Hardcore Kitchen) 

DISTURD - Walk (Grind Bird Records) 

CRUNK - Paralyze (Break the Records)  

惡AI意 - Pain Killer (Grind Bird Records) 

AUTOROLL - Payback (Hardcore Kitchen) 

NO NO NO - Japang (KiliKiliVilla / Gerpfast Kolektif)   

The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women 

NEO BOYS - Give Me the Message (Trap) 

NIKKI AND THE CORVETTES - Let's Go (Bomp!)  

ACCIDENTE - La Revuelta Real (Self-Released)

V.D.I. - Rosalia (Discos Corrosivos) 

PANTYCHRIST - Leader of the Damned (Self-Released)

RAMONAS - Insulted (Self-Released) 

DEATH GASP - Torture Tactics (Audacious Madness) 

UNHOLY ALLIANCE - What If (Self-Released)  

NUKKE - Hellbound Drifter (D-Takt & Råpunk Records) 

WARCHILD - Proliferation (D-Takt & Råpunk Records)   

PERVITIN - Militarismi  

FEAR OF THE KNOWN - Artificial Unintelligence (Break the Records / Phobia Records / Organize and Arise)

Oldies 

FIENDENS MUSIK - Tredje Tåget (Bellatrix) 

FEMALE HANDS - If I Only Had A Brain (Quintessence) 

HAMMER DAMAGE - Laugh (Broken) 

MUTANTS - Insect Lounge (415 Records)

THE SPYS - I Wanna Be Like You (Self-Released)  

DECADE - Spectacle of Idiocy (Black Konflik / Insane Society / Headnoise / Audacious Madness / Monolith /Distro-y / Black Against Night)      

LANGUID - Tattered Minds (D-Takt & Råpunk Records) 

MUECO - Ideation (Fuzzed Atrocities) 

COLLAPSED - Vicious Circles (Bullwhip / Phobia / Deviance / Hecatombe / Up the Punx) 

PHANE - Power Games (Phobia)

ANTHRAX - Beg Society (Self-Released)

NASTI - Man of the House (Iron Lung) 

URIN - Uwaga (Iron Lung) 

RUIN BY DESIGN - In Service (Self-Released)

DECONTROL - Machine Gun Command (Iron Bastard) 

STATE CONTROL - Permanent Damage (Rodent Popsicle) 

THE BUBBLES - Nice boys (Rose Tattoo) (Bovver Crazee) 

TRA - Last Chaos (Crow) (Harimau Asia) 

YOUNG PARISIAN - Borstal Breakout (Sham 69) (Bovver Crazee)

 

BC Strong 

STARVATION - My Hate (Slow Death) 

SCHEME - Survival (Slow Death) 

VACANT STATE - Not The Same (Hardware / Warthog Speak) 

PUNITIVE DAMAGE - Smug Rat (Convulse)

WIREHEAD - Conjure Club (Slow Death)

Demo Feature

FUCK JONAH was a project band formed one summer when one of the band members, Jonah Falco, went away on a canoe trip. The band was the early inception of CAREER SUICIDE. Here’s that recording 

FUCK JONAH - Fuck Your America (Self-Released) 

FUCK JONAH - Simon Harvey Fight Song (Self-Released) 

FUCK JONAH - Mind over Metal (Self-Released) 

FUCK JONAH - Stabbed in the Crack (Self-Released) 

FUCK JONAH - Broken Bones (Self-Released) 

FUCK JONAH - Shark Attack (Self-Released) 

FUCK JONAH - Outro (Self-Released) 

CIVIC - Velvet Casino (Flightless) 

RATS DON'T SINK - The Drunkards Anthem (Negative Hertz) 

Radio - Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

July 22nd's edition of Equalizing-X-Distort. We started tonight's show with a Top 10 audio playlist for the month of June in the world of hardcore punk. D'Arcy programmed sets around punks who had died in July. Rob programmed sets around Canadian bands with one set from the early scene. The demo feature is a band from Athens, Georgia that has definite C.O.C. and Bad Brains influences. Listen to the show here.


OSK – Crush Your Canadian Idol (To live a lie)

Top 10 - June 2012NO MORE ART – The young king (Kink)

GUITAR GANGSTERS – Never be fooled (Ril Rec)
SHIPWRECKED – Your flag (Crucial Response)
WEAK LINK – Can’t Let it go (Self-Released)
STEP ASIDE – Nothing’s gotta give (Life to Live)
BOSTON STRANGLER – Disconnect Me (Fun with Smack)
FACE UP TO IT – Nuclear accidents for dummies (Stonehenge)
SICKOIDS – Dive (Hardware / Residue)
SECTARIAN VIOLENCE – Dig your grave (Grave Mistake)
MANLIFTINGBANNER – I dream a world (Crucial Response)


RED SQUARES - Ottawa Today (No Exit)
ROCK AND ROLL BITCHES - Wild West (Ugly Pop)
BUREAUCRATS Grown up age (No Exit)
THE SPYS - Machine Shop (Ugly Pop)
POINTED STICKS - Apologies (Bomb)


THE EXPLODING HEARTS - Thorn and Roses (Dirtnap)
THE SLITS - Boring Life (Y)
JOHNNY THUNDERS - born to Lose (Fack)
DISFEAR - Dead Weight (Relapse)
EXPLODING HEARTS - Pretender (Dirtnap)
PAPER BAGS – See you fucks at the bar (No Front Teeth)


HAUTE COUTURE – Serious Shame (Shogun)
MINEFIELD Demo 2012 – Track 6 (Self-Released)
NOOSE - Regulate
HUNTING PARTY – Pleasure Island (Hesitation Wound)
KONTAMINAT demo – Costume (Self-Released)


SNFU - Seeing life through the bottom of a bottle (BYO)
MINUTEMEN - Shit you hear at parties (New underground)
OCTOBER CRISIS - Every Day (Psyche)
MENTORS - Police Hotel (Mystic)
WHITE FLAG - Cleocin (Gastanka)


EXTREME NOISE TERROR - Murder (Head eruption)
REAGAN YOUTH - Degenerated (R Radical)
GITS - While you're twisting, I'm still breathing (CZ)
DEMICS - New York City (Ready)
EXPLODING HEARTS - Your shadow


OILTANKER – The end of the rope (Profane Existence)
DRESDEN – Shallow Grave (Profane Existence)
GOURIDE - La finka has been destroyed (Self-Released)


Demo Feature
SHAVED CHRIST – Ages of man (Self-Released)
SHAVED CHRIST – Bury it (Self-Released)
SHAVED CHRIST – No crux (Self-Released)
SHAVED CHRIST – React (Self-Released)

Review - Spys "Underground / Machine Shop" ep

This is a review of a re-issue of the Spys ep who were from Windsor. Ugly Pop re-released the ep and MRR wrote the review for this in the July issue (#350) of MRR.

Radio - Sunday March 4th, 2012

Many technical difficulties plagues this week's show. We did get to interview Simon Harvey from Ugly Pop vinyl about his new releases like the Dream Dates, Arson, Crash Kills 5, and the soon to be released singles for the Hot Nasties, the Spys, and the Rock 'n roll bitches. Tonight's demo feature was Unholy Thoughts from West Virginia. You can listen to the show, warts and all, here.


THE MANIC DEPRESSIVES - Silence on the radio (ReRun)


FIX MY HEAD - Close your eyes (Inimical)
THURNEMAN - De far inget straff de far betalt (Sorry State)
DEN SKEVF - Ombord (Graphals)
ABUSIVE ACTION - What's Right (Voice of a Generation)
SCORCHED EARTH - The Dark Chapters (Graphals)


MC5 - Looking at you (Atlantic)
THE STOOGES - I wanna be your dog (Elektra)
TASMANIANS - Baby (Eva)
APOLLO APACHES - Cry me a lie (Crypt)
LARRY KNIGHT AND THE UPSETTERS - Hurt Me (Astray)


CRASH KILLS 5 - Special School (Ugly Pop)
DREAM DATES - Tallahassie Lassie (Ugly Pop)
ARSON - Coho? Coho! (Ugly Pop)
THE SPYS - Underground (Ugly Pop)
HOT NASTIES - Invasion of the Tribbles (Ugly Pop)
ROCK 'N ROLL BITCHES - Wild West (Rich Young)


NORTHWEST COMPANY - Hard to Cry (Imperial)
GRANT SMITH AND THE POWER - Keep On (Boo)
UGLY DUCKLINGS - Nothing (York Town)
PAINTED SHIP - White Lies (Ugly Pop)
HAUNTED - 1-2-5 (Ugly Pop)
UNDERWORLD - Go Away (Ugly Pop)
BENT WIND - Sacred Cows (Green Tree)


SUBHUMANS - Religious Wars (Bluurg)
GBH - City baby attacked by rats (Clay)
WIRE - Mannequin (Harvest)
FORGOTTEN REBELS - England keep yer stars (Star)


Demo Feature
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Whiskey, Weed, Girls and Speed (Self-Released)
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Hell is other people (Self-Released)
UNHOLY THOUGHTS - Sleep (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday December 11, 2009

The Spys "Original Punk Rock From Canada 1979-1980" LP

This LP was a collection of the 7", demos from 1979 and some material from the live reunion show in 1995. This was released by Incognito out of Germany who released the awesome "Back to the Front" comps, which are the best sort of KBD type of releases that I have seen. The band was made up of Elad on guitar, Coma Joe on bass, Dave O'Gormanon drums, and Frank Carlone on vocals.

The songs on this release are:

1. Machine Shop
2. Underground
3. I Wanna Be Like You
4. Been Through the Mill
5. Welcome to the Cruel World
6. Watching You
7. Ludwell Woodwork
8. Best I Can Get
9. Face the Eighties
10. I'm a Miner
11. Don't Touch that Dial
12. Last Generation
13. Machine Shop
14. I Wanna Be Like You
15. Better Off Dead

Various Artists "Smash the State, Volume 2" LP

This was the second installment of the Smash the State series. This too came out on Frank Manley's label No Exit Records. Once again Frank stuck to releasing eps in the entirety. He starts out with a band from Winnipeg called Lowlife. This band featured Richard Duguay on bass who went on to play guitar in Personality Crisis. The ep re-released on this comp is called "Leaders" and was originally released on a label called Airout Music back in 1979. MP3 files can be found out Good, Bad Music for Bad, Bad Times!

The Spys were a repeat band to the series. The Spys were from Windsor and self-released this ep in 1980. The songs were "Underground" and "Machine Shop".

Private School were also on this comp. They were from Vancouver, BC and appeared on the "Vancouver Complication" comp. The band formed in 1977 originally as an art school band. The band had rotating members and at one point had Tony Bardach on bass from the Pointed Sticks. They opened for the Police on their first North American tour in 1979. The songs on here are on a self-released ep and are:

1. Money, Guns and Power

2. Fuck You

3. I Wanna Know

4. Sci-Fi

Silicone Injection self-released a 5 song ep titled "Sic Nos Non Nobis". It was recorded at R+R Studios from September 1980 to Januaury 1981. The songs released on the ep are:

1. Kids are People Too

2. Payday on Friday

3. Agro

4. At War with Peace

5. She's A

The ep can be downloaded at http://sharebee.com/d2c5d24f.

The Malibu Kens were from Edmonton. They released an ep titled "Be My Barbie" on their own label Exploding Debut in 1981. The band also had some songs on the "It came from Inner Space" comp which is a little known Edmonton punk comp. Let's Dance do a tribute to the above shot in their first ep on Longshot Music. 7" from the Underground has a download for the "Be My Barbie" ep. The songs on this ep are:

1. Crude City

2. Wednesday Morning at 5:00 as the Day Begins

Wasted Lives and Big Black Puppets were from Vancouver and featured future Modernettes and Pointed sticks members. Wasted Lives did a song called Divorce" and Big Black Puppets did a song called "False Hopes". This ep came out on Gestus Music in 1979 originally.

A summary on the collection of the Smash the State materials can be found up at Model Citizen ... Zero Discipline.

Flyer - Friday August 8 - Saturday August 9, 1980

The Spys "Underground / Machine Shop" ep

The Spys were from Windsor and were part of a scene that included the Dry Heaves and the Flesh Columns. There was two pressings of 250 copies each for this ep. The second was on yellow coloured vinyl.